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Not sure if related, but cut and pasting something from Forbes magazine: "The Cambridge Analytica scandal may have exposed the raw truth about data security and manipulation on social media, but the issue is rooted in the platforms—the potential for deriving intelligence from otherwise innocuous data. Many of the tools are new, leveraging AI and pattern analytics to map relationships between people “through link analysis,” to use natural language processing to “assign meaning or attitude to social media posts,” and to mine data for information about “past, present, or future locations.” And so are you really being watched? Probably." All governments have to do is flick the switch and get the end of the month summary report on the populations mood and tendencies.

Trump has been a public figure since the 1970's. Anyone who didn't know what they buying with their vote in '16 lived under a rock.

Old thread Vote Gorth for dictator! No more more uncertainty, no more pointless political wrangling, no more endless debates! On a slightly more serious note, previous thread ended with whether or not there was a point in third party candidates. In the orange corner Guard Dog, in the purple corner a tag team of other forum members

I think that we need some medical survival aspects to flesh out the experience a bit. We see lots of items that have very limited uses but could have lots of medical applications. Here's some things to consider for ailments and progression/cures. WET: Going into water will make your character get wet. Slows you down when out of water until you dry. Leads to common cold if you get wet for extended periods at night or don't dry in time. Staying in sunlight dries you faster, staying next to a lit spit dries you fastest. COMMON COLD: The cold will slow you down and occasionally make you sneeze. Dehydrates you 15% faster and drinks fill your water meter 10% less. Gles away after a while but can be cured by drinking flower tea, crafted on the spit using flower petals, aphid honeydew and water from a canteen. BLEEDOUT: Getting struck by a larger enemy can cause your character to slowly bleed out and lose health over time. Sap makes the bleeding stop for an in game hour, cures after 4 in game hours or when using a fiber bandage. FATIGUE: Exhausting the stamina meter will lead to fatigue. Each time the stamina meter is exhausted, the player's maximum stamina is decreased by 1%. After 50% max stamina loss the player will start to slow down, attacks are slower and blocking is less effective. After 95% max stamina loss, the player has a random chance to fall asleep on the spot, risking being attacked. Cures are sleeping (restores fully) and sitting down (restores 20% per minute up to a max of 80%). Crafting grub goo coffee prevents any max stamina loss and gives +20% max stamina for 4 in game hours (grub goo, pollen, boiling gland) DEEP GASHES: The largest insects may have a chance to inflict deep gashes if you have sustained damage repeatedly in a short time. The only cure is a thorn stitching (thorn, sap, spider silk) which will close the wounds. Having a deep gash will also inflict bleedout occasionally, and additionally cut max health in half whilst active. A new mutation can be introduced to prevent gashes and bleedout. FRACTURE: Large creatures can fracture your bones when attacks are not perfectly blocked, or from a large fall. Fractures can only be healed by rest after applying a berry cast (berry leather, crude rope, bug rubber) and staying out of stamina-draining activities for 8 ingame hours. Fractures slow movement and exhausting stamina drains health by 7% to a min of 25%. The UNCRACKABLE buff prevents fracturing of bones. VENOM: The wolf spider's venom could be less damaging but now lasts until it is waited out or cured. Venom slows stamina regeneration, slows down the player, and drains health by 1% every 20 seconds. It can be cured using spider antivenom (1 spider fang, 1 raw aphid meat, 2 sap) which reduces the wait time from 12 in game hours to 1 in game hour. FOOD POISONING: Eating raw or rotten meat, drinking dirty water can lead to food poisoning. Stamina recovers slower, and all physical activities cosr 30% more stamina. Eating more food whilst having food poisoning is only 20% as effective. Cured by waiting it out for 1 ingame day. Drinking insect tea (plant fiber, aphid honeydew, spider parts) reduces wait time to 1 ingane hour. IMPALED: The infected mite projectiles can impale you 5% of the time, which bypasses all armor protection bonuses. Whilst impaled, the player's armor bonuses are negated and max health drains to 50%. Sprinting and other stamina draining activities also hurt whilst impaled. To cure impalement you need to pull it out manually whilst having a fiber bandage handy to stop the bleedout. This will hurt you but you can optionally visit BURG.L and he can remove it with no drawbacks, costing 10 raw science. You can also impale bugs too, using spears and arrows, slowing down their attacks and causing most to flee, bar spiders and ladybugs. PHEREMONES: Getting hit by a worker or soldier ant can leave a pheremone trail on you. Whilst this is active, ants will continually try to hunt you and all ants including workers attack on sight. HUMANT prevents this and going into water removes the pheremones if you have them. Using ant lotion (ant parts, grub goo, sap) will prevent you from getting pheremones for 1 in game day. STINKY: Getting gassed by a stinkbug leaves its smell on you, attracting more stinkbugs. Whilst active, stinkbugs will actively hunt you and spawn more frequently, and smaller bugs will run away long before you see them. To remove the stink, you need to use berry mint soap (berry chunk, nectar, mint chunk) or stay in water for 3 in game hours to wash it out. Goes away on its own after 1 in game day. FRESH DEFENSE can prevent you from getting stinky. FUNGAL GROWTHS: Getting hit by infected creatures can leave spores on you that slowly grow into deadly fungus. At stage 1, nothing happens and spores can be washed off in water. At stage 2 the fungus takes root in your skin, draining your food and water meters 2 times faster and slowing stamina regeneration. You can wash this off with berry mint soap. At stage 3 the fungus is now in your flesh and bloodstream, sapping your health. At its final stage the fungus has eaten away at your flesh until only the skeleton remains. Cures for stage 3 and beyond can only be found from BURG.L where he literally zaps it out of you.

Because the guy it all started under is the best guy to stop it? Also because we live here and things aren't as they seem on tv

Mamie, I have your back,,,,,I will buy this game just to support your country I am planning a visit to all east countries as I have never been to any and we always go the UK and central Europe , I want to visit Czech and Slovakia first .....when I come visit you guys can I count on to set me with some hot, Slovakian women? And you welcome to tell how I have supported your economy....patriotism is a good thing

That night time construction in the jungle...

Everyone is talking about Cobra Kai, and I don't have anything else to watch right now, so I booted it up .... I was never much a fan of Karate Kid, etc. but man, that show is pretty good. Certainly going to keep watching it.

"are we sure america isn't a dictatorship yet? " it has always been

We've had mail in voting for more than 150 years. The military uses it all the time to account for the ballots of deployed service members. Republicans themselves have pushed mail-in voting for years. But for some strange reason, it's rife with opportunities for corruption *now*. Here's how the process works: Voter either adds themselves to an early ballot roster or applies for an absentee ballot Voter receives the ballot, completes it, signs the envelope, and mails the ballot back to the state The signature is then checked against the signature on file and then either placed in the "nice" pile if the signature is a match, or placed in the "naughty" list if there is an issue with the signature (either it looks off or is missing or the state requires that a witness signs the envelope as well). Some states do this as soon as the ballot is received. Others wait until election day to start this process. The voter is responsible for following up to see if their ballot is on the "naughty" list and make necessary corrections if applicable. The envelopes in the "nice" list are opened and the ballots within are processed and tabulated on election day. So in order to commit fraudulent voting, one would have to: Somehow intercept an absentee ballot application or forge an early ballot application (breaking into a mailbox?) Know all the information about the actual voter that would be required to complete said document Somehow intercept the mailed ballot (breaking into a mailbox?) Complete the ballot Match the signature that the state has on file for the voter (could create this themselves in step one, but would raise suspicion if the voter had a signature on file via DMV etc) Mail in the ballot If someone managed to accomplish all those things, they would have risked federal level fraud charges to pick up one additional vote for their candidate Which seems like a pretty ****ing stupid thing to do which is probably why all attempts to root out voter fraud have yielded almost zilch (because some people are, apparently, just that ****ing stupid). Better question might be, how is mail in voting less secure than in-person voting. (full-disclosure: I live in an early ballot state and have voted by mail for almost all of my adult life) You and I are probably going to have to agree to disagree on this one. My partner works in healthcare and has been neck-deep in the pandemic since this started. If Person A has a major life threatening illness that requires regular treatment, and is cut off from that treatment due to a pandemic (the illness will surely kill them painfully if they catch it due to co-morbidities, so they'd rather take their chances with what they have over what they might catch), then does their death from lack of treatment count as a COVID death? It sounds like you would argue "no" because that person didn't die from COVID. Some people would argue "yes" because that person died *because* of COVID. Surely, racking up a death that occurred due to a car accident or shooting would probably qualify as fraud, but I'm not sure what you're referencing specifically.

AFIK, I never tasted dog....flowers taste horrible.....but then again so does a lot of the healthy vegan options. So yeah! Vegans why not also eat poison Ivy and die!

This man begs to differ Edit: He's 80 BTW.

Dragon Age Inquisition's loot system is annoying the crap out of me. It's one of those games I feel is trying too hard with loot. You have three tiers of loot, 4 rarities, customizable upgrades, and loot progression that goes alongside character level. Then, if you're a mage, you have to sort 3 damage types for your weapon because this will be on the test. Which means you're constantly finding utter crap. And you have to navigate the slow menus one item at a time just to make sure it's crap. And even when it's not crap, you're now going into another slow menu to take off the upgrades from your old equipment to put the upgrades on the new one. Your equipment basically has their own equipment submenu that requires accessing through a special location. And if you want to keep your entire roster's equipment up to date, you need to do this process like 10 times. Because you never know when you'll need to take someone off the bench. Customization is desirable because it's supposed to reduce the doing of all this. Find something you like the looks of and you can keep it by upgrading. Find something with stats you like and you can make it look cool. Here we're just adding more loot, more stats, more junk, more menus. I'm not even saying that games need to stop doing loot. They just need to loot to not be an obligation. It needs to be an interesting game system. It should have the value of a good skill tree, representing a play style. And only upgrading when it changes substantially or when you want a player to try something out different. Not just be ups. Soulsborne games are great at this. Even many games with too much loot show they know how... in their endgame. But games don't need the earlier filler. If the end game is where the interest is, the whole game needs to catch up.

Doors need to be resized to be flush to the floor. Pretty annoying when working on a next level and you have the top of the door sticking through the floor. Almost have to follow the exact same floor plan as the level below just so you don't see it.

Come on, I know this is going to sound extremely weird coming from me but.... let's be civil. We can have disagreements whilst knowing most people are decent and want the best for mankind. I don't expect Bruce to around with a machine gun shooting black Africans anymore than I expect you to be one of those filthy Franco Canadians that expect everyone to speak their stupid language and discriminate against English speakers. Only because their stupid accent makes them sound retarded in English, I hooked up with a Quebeqian girl and I felt bad....until I realized she wasn't retarded she just had an accent.

Bruce probably idolizes Rhodesia.

If you don't know, and profess the subject to be unknowable, then why are you making definitive statements? Seems to indicate a tendency of fabrication, but I guess that's to be expected. Regardless, this statement is just false. The far left is open about what it believes, often repetitively and annoyingly so, across the various ideological factions that constitute it. You only have to read a bit from The Intercept, Jacobin, Crimethinc, It's Going Down, WSWS, or one of the various tankie websites to get an idea of what everyone from the left-liberal social democrats to insurrectionary anarchists thinks about any given issue and hear a cookie cutter response what they think needs to be done. For someone who is convinced about a decades long campaign of ideological subversion by various foreign powers you've seemingly done no research into what those ideologies actually are.

I likewise enjoy talking with you. You're probably on of the most patient and considerate posters in here. I am voting Trump, same reason I voted Trump back in 2016: I don't like establishment politicians. That's probably a view shared by a lot of Americans, specially after 2 decades of conflict in the middle east, the fall of the middle class and the bailout. The push to the far left in America is a result of this, Bernie Sander said it best when he equated socialism to social planning and that we now have social planning for the rich, so why can't we have it for the poor. Unfortunately a lot of people just look at what they stand to gain short term and ignore the long term failures of a state run economy. Simply put, you trust a mechanic to fix your car but you would be wary of a state appointed administrator that doesn't know a wheel from a carburetor directing the fixing of your car. Socialism fails because it promotes based on ideology and inner politics rather than merit. Antifa is already being dealt with in a way, from journalist Andy Ngo (he was attacked by Antifa) crusade to hold violent members accountable by tweeting their PUBLIC arrest records. To the Trump administration deputizing State and Local PD in these areas in order to bypass District Attorneys that won't prosecute these violent criminals and instead charge them in a Federal court. The problem is that Antifa is just a symptom not a disease, they are the result of ideological subversion and a corporatist culture that has grown unchecked and denied constitutional rights to citizen. Whilst telling you that you're being whiny just because you can afford a smartphone.

Yes, every political dissident needs to be put in a hard labor camp where they can properly concentrate on becoming better citizens. So they can do their part. Like the Chinese do. Wait a moment, you don't really like the Chinese government, that can't be it. Are you sure you're South African and not Argentinian with German ancestry?

Too time consuming to make a larger post, but it's quite dismaying that Ginsberg died. I swear, who in the hell broke a mirror this year? I personally disagreed with her philosophy, especially in disparaging the US constitution as a document of negative rights. Of course, it *is,* but that's good! It's really too bad that her death comes at virtually precisely the right time to cause increased chaos within the electorate. I never wish death on people unlike the folks around here who crow about the deaths of conservatives. Another thing that's really too bad is that the death of this human being is distressing primarily for political reasons. I feel guilty, but my first thought was about the political situation when I heard she'd died, and she was certainly a massive figure in US history. Anyhow, don't have much time to climb over the walls of text, but remember to vote for Trump in November. Don't buy the nonsense that our 'erudite' members peddle. Yeah, Biden will probably win, but you never know, so go vote!

The focus of the far left rhetoric pretty much involves race and gender; at least at face value, qualifications never come into play when they demand that more POC, women and LGTB should hold positions of power like CEO. Why would they care that a POC, woman or LGTB doesn't accurately represent their views anymore that they care if a business fails?

Ok, I get where you're coming from but right now they're in the position where there's a national push for politicians to defund the police. If you are hostile to someone do expect them to be hostile back to you. Plus, it is unreasonable to ask people to risk their lives on the daily and see pretty horrific things for a low pay. Even cops that join the force because of their values will become disenfranchised. They're already probably feel very ostracized because of their job experience, a little praise and respect is probably what they get from the job. Don't get me wrong I'm all for police accountability but I understand the difference between a human doing their job and some bureaucrat PoS that's playing politics in their favor. At this time, PDs seem to be fighting the political establishment to do their jobs, in a lot of states. The Portland riots only died down after the Federal government deputized the State and local PDs because the District Attorney refused to prosecute any rioter.

It was sort-of resolved for second+ playthroughs. There should be a golden nug statue next to the stables in Haven or at the basement of Skyhold. It allows to share crafting schematics between your characters/saves. ---- Completed Titanfall 2. The story was rather touching, optimization terrible, controls customizable. ---- Completed Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition - Dark Dreams of Furiae. It had somehow odd pacing (no combat at the beginning, a classic NWN dungeon at the end), interactive-but-not-really objects (I could poke a door and see a message "This place is unimportant, move along") and all side quests included checking on NPCs each in-game day. Though, the implementation of time limits was interesting (I did not know that it was possible in NWN). Story-wise, I saved the city of Furiae from some planar evil thing, so it can transfer to the LE plane on its own? I also found a gelatinous cube. I don't remember seeing those in any other D&D game.

You could always move there, here's something to get you started.

I think a good idea for a higher tier weapon further on down the road is glass. The main reason being if there’s cans all over the yard, why not a glass soda bottle as well, or maybe an old jam jar. You would need to use a high tier hammer to break into usable shards. It could be used for blades, spear tips, or even arrow tips potentially. This is just my two cents on better weapons, while an insect pincer might cut well, a glass blade would cut even better. Though I do like all of the insect tools, I think some more items from humans would be cool. Another potential candidate, but less likely to be randomly found in a yard is a sewing needle.

I couldn't agree more ....

I can find no mods that make it so the loot isn't just piles of crap that's managed by horribly slow menus. It's mostly cosmetic mods, a few rebalances. Ooh, I see one that drops even more loot. That would just make the problem worse.

I get the joke, but people don't buy budwieser thinking that maybe they'll open the can and find champagne inside.

I like how they inverse characters and show the different perspectives. It would have been easy to make one the good and one the bad guy, but they didn't went that way. It's especially good because if you rewatch the old movie, the "good kid" comes off as a real ass now (it was covered by some other youtube videos as well a while ago - basically showing examples of why he is actually the real bully). tl;dr - pretty good so far.

This is exactly why you need to Mod a game like this, I have included the list of Mods that could address.. You just need to use the Frosty Mod Manager to install relevant Mods There is no need for your gaming experience to be negative because of this type of design flaw. Let me know if you get stuck with the Mod Manager https://www.nexusmods.com/dragonageinquisition/search/ You know what we say in the Modding community ..." never accept the unacceptable "

Just a curiosity. One of those little forgotten pieces of military history from a different age (before ICBM's) A large military exercise... where results got classified for half a century because it didn't fit the official line.

There's no accounting for taste.

Michel Ancel, creator of Rayman and Beyond Good & Evil is leaving video games. Did he watched way too much of SaveAFox in the last 6 months as well?

That url from the video really exists: https://www.nightcity.love

Thank you. I will do this now.

Empire of Sin is coming out on December 1. Available for pre-order now. Not a fan of multiple packages. 35 pounds sounds fair, but I feel exclusive content pressures me to buy at least the middle one. Meantime, I am still not quite clear on how EoS plays. They started a continues playthrough. Part 1 is out, but it doesn't show anything new so far:

only problem i see with glass is it's fragile, the edge would chip away with use quite quickly. Sewing needle, or a pack of needles, would be cool. That family that owns the house is horribly messy, we could get a lot of cool items dropped in the yard.

This would be pretty cool. Maybe these weapons could cause some sort of bleeding effect.

Aaaand it was time to visit Ancient Dragon again This time, I've decided to clear all mobs in the area, so I would not get any interruptions while trying to get to the boss. In NG it took me 139 attempts to defeat him, in NG+, he went down after 5 without any extra cheese When you learn all of the gimmicks of the fight, he became much less of the threat, and you are able to outmaneuver his randomness much easier

Another bossfight, which I've tried to postponed as much as possible was optional Darklurker. Not because his difficulty, but because of annoying way, who to get to the fight, and the need to use one humanity each time you die. To my surprise, the "gauntlet" to him in three areas needed to clear was much more casual friendly than in NG. Probably, because I had much better spell arsenal now Anyway, as before, one of the more interesting fights with enjoyable fight mechanics Three attempts and 1 minute 20 seconds in the final attempt were needed

Have enlisted a legion of screaming goats in WL2. We shall see what use they are. Not very good for minefield clearing though.

i'm guessing with the rename of woven fiber to crude rope we'll be getting ropes in the next patch it's been asked for a bunch. And hopefully items to use the rope like grappling hook, zip line, ladders, etc.